Following Li Meilin to the scene of the crime, I found that this reservoir is not the kind used to intercept rivers, nor is it a natural lake formed by nature, but a circular reservoir built with artificial cement to store water. There is probably a basketball court. That size.
The corpse had been covered with a white cloth, but there were still flies buzzing around the corpse. There was an unpleasant rancid stench in the air, and I couldn't help frowning.
Li Meilin stopped when she was still some distance away from the corpse, glanced at it with a complicated expression, and said to me in a flat tone, "Go and see the corpse yourself."
I stopped and looked at her sideways, only to see her eyebrows slightly condensed and her face slightly pale. Li Meilin deliberately slowed down her breathing rate, as if she wanted to breathe as little as possible the unpleasant cadaverous stench. Not to mention that she, a woman, doesn't like this taste, even I can't stand it.
There was a playful look on the corner of my mouth, and a narrow smile appeared in my pupils: "Why? Why don't we go and enjoy it together?"
Li Meilin gave Ni I a look of disgust, and her tone was a little displeased: "I believe you can handle this kind of thing alone."
I sighed in my heart, talking to this woman is useless, talking too much will not have any effect, but it seems that I am long-winded. I silently walked to the corpse, took a deep breath, and slowly lifted the white cloth.
The moment the white cloth was lifted, a group of flies buzzed and flew around, and a lot of them landed on me, making me almost get goosebumps. An even more unpleasant rancid stench emanated from the corpse, which almost suffocated me.
In fact, I would rather kill people than examine a dead body. These are two completely different feelings.
And this kind of post-mortem work is really not something a person with a mental cleanliness like me can do, but there is no other way. The most accurate judgment cannot be made without examining the body in person, so I had to bite the bullet and examine the decomposed corpse.
The upper body of the corpse was not covered by any clothing, but the lower body was wearing a pair of underwear and a pair of socks on the feet. Judging from the degree of decay of the corpse, it should have been some time since the deceased was killed.
From the face of the deceased, it can be roughly determined that the deceased was a female, about 30 years old, but the specific age needs further pathological examination. The rest were similar to what Li Meilin had said, with a large area of the ribcage collapsed, and two shocking blood holes in the neck.
I looked closely at the two blood holes on the neck of the corpse. From the shape of the wound, it looked like it had been bitten by two pointed teeth. But if you have to attribute these two blood holes to zombies, I really don't believe it, because there are no so-called zombies in this world, let alone zombies that suck blood and harm people.
I accidentally saw that the left ear of the deceased had lost more than half of it. At first, I thought that the body was soaked in water for too long, and it may have fallen off when it surfaced or was salvaged.
But when I noticed that there were scratches and bite marks around the blood hole on the deceased's neck, I re-examined the left ear that had fallen off most of the time, and confirmed that the left ear was definitely not due to decay. It must have been bitten off by something.
Several questions arose in my mind, why was the deceased only wearing underwear and socks? Why does the chest have a large area of collapse? And is the fatal wound really the two blood holes in the neck? What about the scratches and bite marks around the blood hole? Was most of the left ear bitten off before death or bitten off after death? Are there fish or turtles raised in the reservoir
With these questions, I once again endured the disgusting and rancid smell and continued to examine the wound.
Anyone who has done this job will believe that corpses can speak, and I have gradually believed this from Mao Zhuoqiang in the process of solving the case for the past two years.
I used a slender silver needle to gently fiddle with the blood hole on the neck. I found that the two blood holes did not have the wound skin and flesh everting. They were relatively smooth. After the death of the deceased, it seems that the murderer wanted to conceal the real cause of death of the deceased.
I moved my gaze to the deceased's chest again. The sunken part was obviously caused by a blunt blow. Whether the fatal injury is here or not remains to be verified.
I inserted the silver needle into the sunken part of the corpse, and then pulled it out to observe the color on the silver needle. After repeating this back and forth a few times, my expression gradually became solemn.
I continued to use a silver needle to carefully fiddle with the decomposed skin on the chest of the corpse, and found that there were scratches and bites on the skin.
If the deceased was killed by the murderer with a blunt weapon, then why did the murderer grab and bite the deceased's chest after the murder? This obviously doesn't make sense.
So now we can boldly speculate that the real cause of death of the deceased is that he was bitten alive, or was tortured alive.
After examining the body, I got up and walked to the edge of the reservoir, lowered my eyes and looked into the water, and found that the water in the reservoir was not turbid, but I could not see the situation under the reservoir.
Is the reservoir too deep? I couldn't understand it for a while, and I vaguely felt that there was something strange under the reservoir, and from the surface, I didn't see any fish and shrimps raised in the reservoir.
Full of doubts, I Shi Shiran walked to the police car. When she passed by Li Meilin, she saw my brows furrowed. She probably thought I was disgusted by the rotten smell of the corpse, and she asked, "How is it?"
I was a little distracted, rolled my eyelids, and replied casually, "How about what?"
"Rotten... uh... What's the result of the inspection?" Li Meilin suddenly realized that something was wrong and immediately changed her mouth.
I looked suspiciously at her with her eyes babbling, and when I saw the unbearable smile on her brows, I replied stubbornly, "It's nothing!"
After speaking, he continued to walk towards the police car.
Li Meilin was stunned for a moment, then her face sank, she caught up with dissatisfaction, grabbed my sleeve, glared at me and asked, "I asked you to come, so you will tell me this?"
"Otherwise?" I was a little impatient, "Do you think I am Bao Gong alive? Or am I the detective Di Renjie? Or Conan? You can analyze the cause of death by looking at the corpse? You can immediately find out who the murderer is. ?"
Li Meilin was agitated by my series of rhetorical questions, and glared at me with a pair of beautiful eyes: "Then it's too casual for you to say nothing like that?"
I sneered: "Don't tell me it's not easy for you to pull my sleeve in the eyes of the public?"
"You!" Li Meilin was speechless for a while, and let go of her hand angrily, her beautiful eyes seemed to burst into flames.
Li Meilin and I have known each other for two years, and it is difficult for them to be together peacefully. As long as the two don't make a few sarcastic words with each other, they feel that something is missing.
Li Meilin took a deep breath and calmed down before asking me again, "What are you going to do next?"
I shrugged: "What else can I do? We can only wait for your police to find out the identity of the victim, and then start the next step of investigation based on her social network before her death."
Li Meilin nodded, pondered for a moment and then asked: "Do you think the fatal wound of the deceased is really..."
"Stop!" I interrupted Li Meilin's words directly, and my burning eyes met her confused eyes.
"I can be sure that the deceased was definitely not killed by a zombie. The wound on the neck was artificially caused by the deceased. The real cause of death of the deceased is in the chest. If you look at the body carefully, it is not difficult to see that it is sunken. There are serious scratches and bite marks on the skin of the deceased, I think the deceased was tortured to death alive."
"How do you know that the two blood holes on the neck of the corpse are man-made after death?"
I stopped and looked at Li Meilin seriously, and the corners of my lips gradually raised without concealing the sarcasm.
"I really doubt what you learned when you were in the police academy. You don't even know such a little common sense?"
"What common sense?" Li Meilin was obviously stunned by my question, and yes, she didn't even take a look at the corpse, so how could she know the suspicious points on the corpse
"The tissue of a living person is elastic, and the skin of the wound before death will open; but the dead person will not, because the tissue loses its elasticity after death." I glanced at my mouth, "Understood? My Captain Li?"
Li Meilin snorted disdainfully: "Do you think I really don't know this? I'm just here to test your most basic common sense. It seems that the test results are not bad, and you didn't disappoint me too much."
I couldn't help but raise my hand to support my forehead. This woman's shameless skills have grown, and she can actually lie to me in a serious manner.
It suddenly occurred to me that Li Meilin told me on the way here that the forensic examination of the corpse concluded that the fatal injuries were two blood holes in the neck, and it was impossible for forensic doctor Mao to fail to see that the two blood holes were caused by what he believed to be. of!
"Why didn't I see Forensic Doctor Mao?" I asked with raised eyebrows.
"Something happened at Forensic Mao's house yesterday, and he took two days off!"
"Huh? So who examined the body before the forensic team?"
"It's Wang Hongzhuo, the assistant of forensic doctor Mao."
I curled my lips sarcastically: "Your police station is empty? Looking for such a girl's film to examine the body? No wonder it's misleading."
"Don't look down on others. They are postgraduates from Fengda Medical College with excellent academic performance."
"So what?" I didn't bother to talk to her about this, and asked, "Where is the person who reported the crime? I have something to ask him in person."
When I asked this question, Li Meilin became strangely silent.
"What? You don't know who the caller is, right?"
Facing my doubts, Li Meilin explained in a low voice: "Our police just received a call from a stranger. As for who called the police, we haven't found the person yet."
"What?" I couldn't help but widen my eyes. "You haven't even seen the person who called the police? What do you eat? I don't know how to check!"
Being despised by me so shamelessly, Li Meilin's face froze: "You don't need to teach me this. We have already found out the information of the person who called the police, but we are not sure where he is now."
I felt powerless to complain about Li Meilin's answer, and I left an angry sentence: "Since there is no one to call the police for the time being, let's send someone to salvage the bottom of the water. Before salvaging, try to disperse all the surrounding reporters and crowds as much as possible. ."
The reason why I asked Li Meilin to drive away the crowd was because I had an intuition that there was something weird under this reservoir. In order to avoid salvaging some inconvenient exposure, it is better to disperse the reporters and the crowd first.
Looking at the back of my leaving, Li Meilin whispered viciously: "Who do you think you are? Let me find someone to salvage and I will find someone to salvage? Let me disperse the crowd and I will disperse the crowd?"
Although she was unconvinced, Li Meilin was unequivocal in her business affairs. She immediately sent people to the reservoir to salvage according to my suggestion, and finally drove away with me.
However, things are not as simple as we imagined. There is really weirdness under the reservoir, and it is still very weird.